File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-feminism_1996/96-10-07.165, message 193


Date:         Wed, 11 Sep 96 09:04:21 CDT
From: katherine lee <C626339-AT-mizzou1.missouri.edu>
Subject:      Re:  Gender Mimicry


Sarah--definitely take a look at Judith Butler's works, especially _Gender
Trouble_; she talks at length about how drag queens amplify the performativity
of gender/sex.  For Butler, drag queens are instances in which traditional
notions of gender/sex are subverted and revealed to be constructions.

                                   ---Katherine Lee


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